I looked for it without success, SAIRAM. Out of print, no second-hand copy up for sale, and not reproduced online, according to my search.Istam grammaticam frustrâ quaesivi. Ut invenio, non jam impressa, nusquàm in interrete simulata, nullum exemplum usu tritum venale prostitum.

http://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=8491 wrote:Use a tripod.Use a Bembo trekker tripod to come in over the books, if you can. (Obviously a copy stand is nice but I have a Kaiser Pro copy stand and actually prefer to use the Bembo.)Make sure the plane of the camera body is parallel to the book or table surface (using a camera spirit level usually, or else by eyeballing it)Try to avoid shadows cast on the page by the tripod or by anything else (including you).Use diffuse or even lighting, to prevent uneven distribution of light across the pages.Make sure the lighting of the pages is good to ensure best detail contrast. So use some reading lamps if you haven't got shadow boxes, but avoid lighting hotspots by positioning the lamps too close to the pages. JPEG capture will be fine, as long as you keep it fine or good and not low resolution.Best to photo double spreads, rather than single pages, for speed, and this requires you checking the detail capture. I've captured double-spreads of A3 dimensions and held resolution on 6-point fonts with a 5 megapixel camera in the past, as long as you are follow these guidelines, but obviously higher megapixel capture is better, although for the Stephanus books 7 to 10 megapixel capture is better.Use a remote trigger on the camera to prevent shake.With the camera relatively close to the book, don't underestimate the depth of field required to ensure all points of the page surface are in focus (pages bow).Keep a high resolution to ensure accurate capture of small point sizes (fonts).Follow a system of visually and mentally noting each page number to ensure you don't skip a page in a long run (you needn't write it down of course, just keep an eye out for skipping pages, which can often happen).Remember to photograph the outer covers and spine (it's nice to do so) and even the seemingly unimportant pages (no pages are unimportant).Try not to damage the spine keeping the book flat, and increase depth of field if you need to, in preference to forcing the book flat.You need to devise your own method of ensuring pages stay flat when you photograph them and if you suspect they may have moved during the shot, take a second shot --much harder to return to this if you hand the books back to the library and then discover some pages have motion blurring.Photograph at a fine or high resolution and as high as possible colour depth. DO NOT use a low image-capture resolution or or low colour depth (--bit resolution should be at least 8 bit and 24-bit is great). You can always sample down using batch processing in PhotoShop if the total file size is much too high.If the book has much detail, photograph in colour in preference to grayscale, even if your book is B&W. You will hold a broader tonal range for illustration detail and, importantly, for very fine print (plus it's a more faithful image, anyway). And I would certainly love to be able to get the copy.

In linguam latinam has res non verto. Nimium est. Me excusas.

KramerKram wrote:Hmm... This may be a bigger task than I am able to take on

Not at all. My recommendations are how to get maximum quality. Be happy with any quality at all, and learn from your mistakes. Minimé, KramerKram. Commendationibus meis, problemates omnia praecipere conor. Quod potes attingere conare, et erroribus disce.

I'll let you know if and when I receive Fr Jean's book.It may be a while.

Thank you so much for your time and patience in detailing the steps.However, I'm afraid it's all beyond me and I can't think of anybody who would be willing to undertake this herculean task -- hoc opus, hic labor est!

REGUMREX69 wrote: Thank you so much for your time and patience in detailing the steps.However, I'm afraid it's all beyond me and I can't think of anybody who would be willing to undertake this herculean task -- hoc opus, hic labor est!

Many books can be satisfactorily digitized with the kind of budget scanner that most people have unless, that is, the print comes too close to the inner margin, or the binding is impossibly stiff.